“OSError: mysql_config not found” when trying to “pip install mysqlclient” - Django

Question

I\'m relatively new to Django, and Web Development in general.

I am trying to

pip install mysqlclient

in my

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Answer 1

the python package "mysqlclient" is depended on C system library to drive mysql connect，if you on ubuntu 16.4， just do as below：

sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev
sudo pip install mysqlclient